Tag Archives: Alex Schomburg

This is Thrilling Wonder Stories for February 1940, cover by Howard V. Brown. The ISFDB entry for this issue is here. I found this version of the cover at Pulp Art. And yes, I know I’ve featured it before as a Tumblr favorite, but really, how could I not feature it again? Just look at it: there’s a blonde-tootsie tube girl, a spaceman (with a ray gun, of course), a white-coated scientist (who also has a ray gun, which he’s firing), some laboratory stuff, and freakin’ dragon. I think this must be the most trope-a-riffic pulp sci-fi cover ever to have graced America’s newsstands.

Fitting the cover, there is some entertainingly insane interior art in this issue, such as this by Alex Schomburg, illustrating John Coleman and Hubert Burroughs’s story “The Lightening men.”

As well another Alex Schomburg piece illustrating Jackson Gregory, Jr.’s “The Secret of the Cyclotron.

This is Thrilling Wonder Stories for Fall 1944, cover by Rudolph Belarski. The ISFDB entry for this issue is here. I found this version of the cover at Pulp Covers. The quality of the Internet Archive scan is somewhat indifferent, which is a pity because some of the interior art is conceptually interesting. There is this uncredited piece illustrating Murray Leinster’s “The Eternal Now” and bearing the ominous caption “As they babbled desperate promises, Brett pressed the button.”

This is Thrilling Wonder Stories for June 1951, cover by Earle Bergey. The ISFDB entry for this issue is here. I found this version of the cover at Pulp Covers. This issue contains this interior illustration to William Campbell Gault’s story “Fog” by Paul Orban:

And, in a more whimsical vein, this one to Roger Dee’s “Girl from Callisto” by Alex Schomburg:

My original tumblr post was here. This image was first posted on Tumblr by Scout’s Atomic Flash with a an original source at Flicr and the following explanatory text:

One eye viewed the room briefly before vanishing… – Startling Stories, April 1953. Illustration by Alex Schomburg for the story by Kendell Foster Crossen entitled, Halos, Inc. – a galactic parody about power and the powerful, religion and hierarchy, and the manipulation of the masses by corporate hucksters. All in the 31st century.

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